Since Election Day, Jello Biafra has been working on an open letter to President-Elect Barack Obama. We're submitting the letter via Change.gov, the Obama administration's transition website, on Jello's behalf. We posted the letter in its entirety at:

We have a last minute confirmation that Jello Biafra will be on Pirate Cat Radio tonight (11/5) at 8pm PST for MonkeyMan's show. Other guests will include Matt Gonzalez, Ralph Nader's running mate and former SF Board of Supervisors president, and Ross Mirikarimi, current SF Supervisor for District 5. This will be a discussion and analysis of Election 2008.

You can listen to the broadcast by tuning in to 87.9FM in San Francisco and Los Angeles. If you live in San Francisco, you can go to the Pirate Cat Radio studio, which is also a cafe, at: 2781 21st Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. The show will also be streamed live at the Pirate Cat Radio website and will be archived on the site as a podcast.

1. I remember someone else who had the audacity to misuse peoples' Hope when they were desperate for a change, and his name is Bill Clinton. Let's not forget it was not Bush but Clinton who gave us
NAFTA, the WTO, the Telecom Act of 1996 that opened the floodgates for Clear Channel and Fox News, and laugh out loud Abstinence-only sex "education." Clinton signed Newt Gingrich's cruel welfare reform bill at the urging of Al Gore. And, yes, it was Clinton who planted the seeds of the economic meltdown when he gleefully deregulated the banks.

If Obama turns out to be another Clinton - and surrounding himself with Biden, Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin and Zbigniew Bzrzinsky is not a good sign - I fear he will break the hearts of whole energized
generation of voters who won't feel it's worth it to participate again.

2. When Clinton got in, people rejoined "Ding Dong, Bush is gone. Now
we can finally sleep at night" - and went to sleep for the next 8
years! We can't rest easy and sleep this time. There will be no change
from Obama or a congress of corporate-owned Democrats unless we
increase the pressure and keep a blowtorch up their ass the whole time
they're in power. We need leaders, not more deal makers, Nancy Pelosi
and Harry Reid (remember him?) need to be replaced with people who actually give a shit.

We stopped Vietnam. We torpedoed the Gulf War. Our civil rights and
environmental awareness as we know them today didn't happen because our corporate lords granted the peasants new rights out of the goodness of their corporate hearts. They don't have any. We got where we are because we got together and fought for it. Same for the New Deal. It was us.

And the only thing standing in the way of more wars, more Abu Ghraibs and more Guantanamo Bays coming soon behind a Wal-Mart near you is us.